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Terra Data Access and Tools

Data collected by NASA’s Terra satellite are integral for efforts to understand changes among Earth's interconnected systems. Explore Terra datasets and learn more about relevant data tools.

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Global Fire Atlas with Characteristics of Individual Fires, 2003-2016 Computer, MODIS 2003-01-01 to 2016-12-31 1 COMPLETE multiple Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Global Fire carbon emissions from CMS-Flux inversions assimilating atmospheric carbon monoxide observations MOPITT, TROPOMI 2010-01-01 to 2023-12-31 1 COMPLETE Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide
Global Fire Emissions Database, Version 4.1 (GFEDv4) Computer, VIIRS, MODIS, ATSR 1995-06-01 to 2016-12-31 4.1 COMPLETE multiple Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds
Global Food Security Support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Crop Dominance 2010 Global 1 km V001 MODIS, AVHRR 2007-01-01 to 2012-12-31 001 COMPLETE GeoTIFF Vegetation Cover, Cropland
Global Food Security Support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Crop Mask 2010 Global 1 km V001 MODIS, AVHRR, TM, ETM+ 2007-01-01 to 2012-12-31 001 COMPLETE GeoTIFF Vegetation Cover, Cropland
Global Forest Cover Change Forest Cover Change Multi-Year Global 30m V001 ETM+, TM, ASTER, MODIS 1990-01-01 to 2004-12-31 001 COMPLETE GeoTIFF Forest Harvesting and Engineering
Global Forest Cover Change Surface Reflectance Estimates Multi-Year Global 30m V001 ETM+, TM, ASTER, MODIS 1984-03-12 to 2011-12-25 001 COMPLETE GeoTIFF Reflectance
Global Forest Cover Change Tree Cover Multi-Year Global 30m V003 ETM+, TM, ASTER, MODIS 2000-01-01 to 2015-12-31 003 COMPLETE GeoTIFF Forest Management
Global Forest Cover Change Water Cover 2000 Global 30m V001 ETM+, TM, ASTER, MODIS 1999-06-29 to 2003-01-14 001 COMPLETE GeoTIFF Total Surface Water
Global MODIS and FLUXNET-derived Daily Gross Primary Production, V2 MODIS, Computer 2000-03-01 to 2020-08-01 2 COMPLETE netCDF-4 classic Primary Production, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Gross Primary Production (gpp), Reflectance
Global Monthly Mean Leaf Area Index Climatology, 1981-2015 Computer, MODIS, AVHRR 1981-08-01 to 2015-08-31 1 COMPLETE netCDF-4 classic Leaf Area Index (LAI), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
GPM Ground Validation Satellite Overpasses IFloodS V1 GPS 2013-04-01 to 2013-06-30 1 COMPLETE KML, PNG Satellite Orbits/Revolution
Gross Primary Production Maps of Tidal Wetlands across Conterminous USA, 2000-2019 MODIS, Computer 2000-03-05 to 2019-11-17 1 COMPLETE GeoTIFF Wetlands, Wetlands, Wetlands, Coastal, Gross Primary Production (gpp), Intertidal Zone
High Mountain Asia 1 km MODIS-AIRS Gap-Filled Ground Temperatures and Permafrost Probability Maps, 2003-2016 V001 AIRS, MODIS 2003-01-01 to 2016-12-31 1 COMPLETE netCDF-4 Land Surface Temperature, Permafrost, Permafrost Temperature
High Mountain Asia 12 km Modeled Estimates of Aerosol Transport, Chemistry, and Deposition Reanalysis, 2003-2019 V001 MODIS, NOT APPLICABLE, MOPITT 2003-01-01 to 2019-08-31 1 COMPLETE netCDF-4 classic Aerosol Concentration, Black Carbon, Deposition, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation
High Mountain Asia Average Glacier Thickness Change from Multi-Sensor DEMs V001 CAMERA, ASTER 1974-01-01 to 2017-12-31 1 COMPLETE Shapefile, KML Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness
High Mountain Asia Glacier Thickness Change Mosaics from Multi-Sensor DEMs V001 CAMERA, ASTER 1974-01-01 to 2017-12-31 1 COMPLETE PNG, GeoTIFF Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness
High Mountain Asia Gridded Glacier Thickness Change from Multi-Sensor DEMs V001 CAMERA, ASTER 1974-01-01 to 2017-12-31 1 COMPLETE netCDF-4, GeoTIFF Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness
High Mountain Asia MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth V001 MODIS 2000-02-01 to 2019-03-31 1 COMPLETE ASCII Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent
High Mountain Asia UCLA Daily Snow Reanalysis V001 TM, ETM+, OLI, MODIS 1999-10-01 to 2017-09-30 1 COMPLETE netCDF-4 Albedo, Snow Depth, Snow Water Equivalent
High Resolution Global Contiguous SIF Estimates from OCO-2 SIF and MODIS, Version 2 MODIS, Computer, SPECTROMETERS 2014-09-01 to 2020-07-31 2 COMPLETE netCDF-4 classic Solar Induced Fluorescence, Chlorophyll, Primary Production, Leaf Characteristics
India Annual Winter Cropped Area, 2001-2016 Computer, MODIS 2001-03-31 to 2016-03-31 1.0 COMPLETE GeoTIFF, netCDF-4, PDF, PNG, WMS Agriculture Production, Land Use/Land Cover
INTEX-A AIRMAP data NOT APPLICABLE, FILTERABLE DEPOSIT JAR SAMPLER, DC8 DROPSONDES 2004-07-05 to 2004-07-05 1 COMPLETE ASCII Aerosols, Air Quality
INTEX-A Satellite data MISR, SCIAMACHY 2004-06-20 to 2004-08-31 1 COMPLETE ASCII Aerosols, Air Quality
INTEX-B C-130 Aircraft data NOT APPLICABLE 2006-02-15 to 2006-05-15 1 COMPLETE ICARTT Aerosols, Air Quality

Terra Data Tools

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Tool Sort descending Description Services
FIRMS The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides access to satellite imagery, active fire/hotspots, and related products to identify the location, extent, and intensity of wildfire activity. Access, Visualization
FLOOD The FLOOD viewer facilitates the use and evaluation of LANCE flood products by allowing the user to browse globally and over time, and to compare to other flood products. Monitoring Natural Events, Search and Discovery, Visualization
LDOPE Access a range of software tools designed to manipulate, visualize, and analyze MODIS and VIIRS data. Analysis, Visualization
LP DAAC Data Prep Scripts Access a collection of R and Python scripts to download data and perform basic data processing functions.
MISR Browse Tool The MISR Browse Tool allows easy access to images from the MISR instrument. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
MISR Level 3 Data Browser The MISR Level 3 Data Browser provides visualizations of select parameters available in the MISR Level 3 global data products. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
MISR Orbit Tool The MISR Orbit Tool is an interactive interface for converting dates to MISR Orbit number and Orbit numbers to dates. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
Similarity Search Similarity Search uses machine learning to make it easier for scientists to comb through millions of images and locate sets of similar examples. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
TESViS The Terrestrial Ecology Subsetting & Visualization Services Global Subsets Tool provides on-demand, customized subsets of several terrestrial ecology data products. Visualization, Subsetting
Worldview Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events
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